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Watson is an AI system designed to answer natural language questions. It trounced the human competition in a special edition of Jeopardy!, and its first real-world application will involve healthcare data.
The minimum system requirements needed to run Watson involve a server that costs $1 million. |
In early 2011, Watson beat the world's top Jeopardy! champions. |
Watson was named after IBM's first president, Thomas J. Watson. |
Watson takes up more space than eight large refrigerators. |
David Ferrucci, who led the Watson project, has said that a big inspiration was the Star Trek computer. |